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UK
/ˌɪndˈɛkəɹəs/
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ADJECTIVE
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lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct
indecorous behavior
indecorous behavior -
not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society
indecorous behavior
was buried with indecent haste
indecorous behavior
moved to curb their untoward ribaldry
unseemly to use profanity
language unbecoming to a lady
How To Use indecorous In A Sentence
- He was wakened by a savage whiskerando of the other watch, who, seizing him by his waistband, dragged him most indecorously out, furiously denouncing him for a skulker. Israel Potter
- Fred Wye bestowed a somewhat indecorous caress on his wife, caught Miss Rondel's eye, and reddened. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
- But, when treating of a grave subject, what can be more silly or indecorous than such language as the following -- "Ye are raised on high by the engine of Jesus Christ, which is the cross, and ye are drawn by the rope, which is the Holy Ghost, and your pulley is your faith. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution
- But some of the writers the regime is now grooming to take power look a lot like insurgents themselves: indecorous, sometimes indecent, not snobby about pop culture.
- Their singular talents die indecorous deaths; their individuality is silently squelched under the rigid and coercive iron heel of authority.
- The British press has been atypically lenient in its review of his atrociously indecorous behaviour.
- indecorous behavior
- This woman's behavior is indecorous and unprofessional, and when an employee is ‘scared to death,’ it is probably harassment.
- indecorous behavior
- ‘By venting such indecorous spleen, some might consider that I am indulging in the ‘politics of envy’, as it is called.
